Publications
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Peoples of the Apocalypse
(2016)
End time visions
Poetologie und Geschichte literarischer Mehrsprachigkeit
(2024)
The study is the first to comprehensively examine the significance of literary multilingualism in German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In analyzes of works by Franz Kafka, Dada, Mascha Kaléko, Paul ...
Religiöse Toleranz: 1700 Jahre nach dem Edikt von Mailand
(2016)
Late Antiquity; toleration; Constantine
Cold War Europe
(2024)
This edited volume examines the emergence and circulation of European ideas between the East and the West during the Cold War. The twelve essays collected here discuss the official and unofficial channels through which ...
Plurale Autorschaft
(2023)
The contributions in this volume examine the aesthetics of plural authorship from the disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of literary studies, art history, and musicology. The volume aims to analyze plural ...
Secular Schooling in the Long Twentieth Century?
(2024)
The book investigates the role of Christianity in the 20th- and 21st-century modernization process with the focus on one of the main pillars of the welfare state projects: schools and education. The book has a comparative ...
Chapter Disentangling geography from genealogy
(2013)
In this paper I will not seek to settle this question for individual cases of shared characteristics between two specific languages (e.g. why do French and German have no distance contrast in demonstratives?; see Diessel ...
Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces
(2015)
Syntactic Complexity; Grammar Theory; Interface Syntax; Clausal Embedding
Glass in Architecture from the Pre- to the Post-industrial Era
(2024)
Glass is one of the most fascinating and versatile building materials in architectural history. The new insights into glass in architecture brought together here are the result of research at the intersection of glass ...
Von der Freiheit, Schmerz zu spüren
(2017)
We can make our pain more bearable through our will. But how and where does my self (my mind) affect my body? In this books, medical doctors, neurophysiologists, physicists, and psychologists show that the dualism of body ...
The Poetry of Du Fu
(2015)
The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, ...
Chapter A corpus-based approach to manual simultaneity
(2013)
The purpose of this paper is to describe a corpus-based approach to the study of manual simultaneity (in particular manual holds) and our first attempt at implementing it for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse ...
Migrierende Subjekte in romanischen Literaturen der Welt
(2024)
This study analyzes the socioeconomic perspective of subjects migrating from the Global South in contemporary narrative works in Romance languages. It inquires into the status of the subaltern characters and their role as ...
Health, Rights and Dignity
(2010-12-09)
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended ...
Sprache – Bewegung – Instruktion
(2023)
We often acquire new movement patterns under expert guidance. This book discusses how this task is accomplished through multimodal means (linguistic, physical, visual levels). The Pilates method serves as the situational ...
Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust
(2024)
This is the first study on the role played by Polish mayors in the German-occupied General Government. How did they work with the occupiers? How did they behave in relation to the persecution of the Jews? And how did they ...
Chapter A corpus-based approach to manual simultaneity
(2013)
The purpose of this paper is to describe a corpus-based approach to the study of manual simultaneity (in particular manual holds) and our first attempt at implementing it for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse ...
Postcolonial Semantics
(2024)
English has become central to global knowledge production. But what does the reliance of English mean for the world? The monograph challenges the monopoly of English as metalanguage and proposes instead a "Postcolonial ...
Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten
(2020)
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...
Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten
(2020)
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...